The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Crowded House
... for the first funeral yesterday, investigators struggled to pinpoint the cause of the fire that killed six people in a crowded ... Around the corner from the charred remains of lives lost or forever changed, a man and his wife -- owners of the house on ... He has also been on the road in the US opening for the reformed Crowded House, joining them on stage at the famous Coachella festival. Liam spent two months at the beginning of 2007 in a central Auckland studio, Roundhead, playing, recording ... Consumer electronics companies are asking the Federal Communications Commission to mandate that their products be given access to applications and services running on the headend systems of cable-TV providers. Their so-called Digital Cable Ready-Plus ... Artists: Björk , Sonic Youth , Rage Against The Machine , Fountains Of Wayne , DJ Shadow , Jesus and Mary Chain , The Frames , Explosions In The Sky , Arcade Fire , Arctic Monkeys , Klaxons , Tapes 'n Tapes , Peeping Tom , El-P , CSS , Crowded House ... Time On Earth , Crowded House: Yeah, so they're my favorite band. They're also brilliant at clever turns of phrase and heartbreaking detail of love, loss and regret. The Joni Letters, Herbie Hancock: Wonder why a jazz legend's musical tribute to Miss ... Crowded into the house was Mary French, 75, a real estate broker and grandmother, who described herself as a pro-life conservative Republican. Before McCain spoke she said she was torn between him and Giuliani. Afterwards she said she would vote ... The 8,000-square-foot building will house more than 100 female inmates when it opens in a few weeks. The facility replaces ... But soon it will be crowded with bunk beds, dining tables, toilets, showers and more than 100 female inmates. The target date ... All Black Chris Masoe is under investigation after an alleged altercation with a barmaid in a New Plymouth bar in the early hours of Christmas Day. Police were called to the Crowded House Bar just after midnight on Christmas Eve. Senior Sergeant ... The Dallas singer-songwriter pens exquisitely heartfelt songs but, like Crowded House or Ray Davies, never lets his melancholy overwhelm the melody. 9. Fat Freddy's Drop, "Based on a True Story" This New Zealand septet's bass-heavy, horn-splashed ... Finn's father, Neil Finn, was the guiding force behind the 80s-90s pop/rock group Crowded House, which last summer released its first new record in more than a decade. The younger Mr. Finn has played with his father's band. A couple of other relative ...
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